Descriptions of the sites are linked by this graphic () to previously appearing daily descriptions. If that link failed in my monthly checking of the links, the following symbol will be shown instead (). Particularly authoritative sites are marked with an exclamation point ( - I am still in the process of adding these). All links were last checked on 9 June 1999 (Total links checked: 3015) by CyberSpyder Link Check. This month's entries are resting in a temporary file until the end of the month.

Botanical Documentation Institutes/Societies:

The Art of Botanical Illustration - online special exhibition on the development of botanical art from herbals to the present

American Society of Botanical Artists - Organization with art tour dates

Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation - History and illustration site

Drawings and Paintings:

Margaret Saul's Botanical Art - botanical art that attracts attention to the indiginous flora

Endeavour Botanical Illustrations at the Natural History Museum - most of the botanical drawings and engravings are available in searchable form

Paintings representing the work of systematic botanists at The New York Botanical Garden (1995-2000) - images of tropical plants and animals studied at NYBG

Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants - APIRS database, extensive image and drawing collections, encyclopedic information on aquatic plants

Traveling Artist Wildflowers Project - watercolor paintings of wildflowers from the Great Plants and Intermountain Southwest

Michael R. Martin's Aquatic Plant Image Library - drawings and digital images of aquatic plants, including some invasive ones

Donald Angus Collection of Botanical Prints - prints from monographs and journals of the 18th and 19th century

Botanical Art from the Gordon Craig Gallery in London UK - virtual gallery and future location of Curtis' Botanical Magazine

Grass Images from Texas A & M Bioinformatics Working Group - classical drawings of 389 Poaceae, including spikelet details

Biodidac - Cooperative bank of digital resources for teaching organismal biology.

- Pictures and descriptions of herbals and natural history works of the Renaissance.

The Russian Painter Home Page - eclectic images of interesting plants

Virtual Botanical Gallery - paintings of tropical fruits, British flowers, medicinal plant and gardens

Paintings of Native Australian Plants - color paintings of Australian endemics

Köhler's Medizinal Pflanzen, 1887 - drawings of 287 European economically important plants

Leonhard Fuchs' Botanical, 1545 - a scanned medieval herbal

Gymnosperms of Australia and New Zealand - cycads, conifers, taxads with maps, drawings, photos

Wendy Brockman: Botanical Art - botanical illustration

Gallery Foyer - Access to image galleries of bulbous plants.

Parasitic Plant Connection - maps, descriptions, photographs, references, DNA

Botanical Watercolors by Carol Wickenhiser-Schaudt - nice collection of paintings

The Tulip Book of P. Cos - 1637 - Tulip catalog of 1600's

BIODIDAC Picture Resources - Color and B/W drawings of life histories for fungi, algae and 'higher' plants

Aquatic Plants - line drawings

Smithsonian Catalog of Botanical Illustrations - Line drawings

Bilder ur Nordens Flora - Color drawings

Photographs

Bromeliad Society International - share a vast image collection, seeds, register cultivars, share research and gardening tips, publish, share information

Interesting Botanical Places of Newfoundland and Labrador - growing collection of images reflecting some of the ecological niches in this maritime province of Canada

Digital Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador Vascular Plants - over 1300 vascular plant species from the Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Newfoundland and Labrador

Digital Flora of Texas - links to herbarium specimen data, vascular plant images, bibliographic references, and checklists

Images de la Flore de France - in French

Stapeliads: Orchids of the Succulent World - carrion pollinated flies with beautiful flowers

ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Center - bibliographic and taxonomic databases from Kew and the Internet

Sticky Situation Desert Site - lots of images of xerophytic plants and desert adaptations

Dendrological Plant Image Gallery - devoted to the study of trees and presented in German, English and Spanish

Great Petaluma Desert: Home of the Fat Plants - view South African natives and other pachyform plants

Eye of Science: Life in a Microcosmic World - artistic electron microscopic imaging of the world in which we live

Virginia Tech: Weed Identification Guide - numerous images of the most common weeds

Bamboo - images for many major bamboo genera, with notes, slide shows, cooking instructions/recipes

Southeastern U.S. Plants - characteristic Southeast US plants by flowering date, common name, scientific name, family and thumbnail image

Bioimages: Plant Features - pages on sexual systems, pollination syndromes, gymnosperm cones, fruit development, fruit and seed dispersal, non-seed plant life cycles and biology of some invasive plants (particularly of Tennessee)

Native Orchids of Provence (France) - native orchids, including images, maps, and descriptions

Forest & Kim Starr's Photographs - over 6000 images of 900 native and non-native Hawaiian plants; insects, other organisms, publications, maps also

Australian Plant Images - images of native Australian plants - a huge collection

BioFinder - Image Database - images representing numerous different families of plants

My Wildflowers - searchable database of wildflower photos from western Pennsylvania

Photographic Tour: Nature in British Columbia - recognizable flora and fauna of British Columbia

Lapshin's Succulent Photogallery - 250 images (or more) of genera and growth habits of a wide variety of succulent plants

Hort.Net - many high quality images, plant news, information and links

Plants Database (part of Dave's Garden) - images and plant data

Internet Orchid Species Photo Encyclopedia - photos collected from collector/growers around the world

Wisconsin Vascular Plants and Lichens - resources include search by family, genus, common name, county, a key to the conifers and "What's Blooming"

Fotoweb 2000 - Plantas - 811 images of tropical plants of Northern Brazil

Lycaeum Images - plant images and plant products

Images from Birmingham Botanical Gardens - digital images from nature

Malvaceae Pages - resource page for images, generic descriptions, classification

Images of Dry Tropical Habitat - images from Argentina, Kenya, Madagascar, Mexico, Namibia, Oman and Somalia

Photographic Atlas of Plant Anatomy - 53 topics and numerous microscopic images are featured

Wildflowers of the Backbone Trail - digital images of southern California wildflowers

BBC Wild - Image Site - images of nature

UW System Botanical Image Library - instructural images and animations (Macromedia authorware) on many botanical topics

BIODIC Image Gallery - gallery of over 1000 scanning and transmission electron microscopic images of plants, chloroplasts, mitochondria, Golgi etc.

Cycad Photo Gallery - digital images of mostly cultivated cycads

Palm Tree Photo Gallery - 1544 digital images of mostly cultivated palms

Premier Cactus Photo Gallery - hundreds of excellent cactus images by genus and species

Kazuo Yamasaki's Madagascar Image Site - Madagascar image collection of plants and animals in over 150 images

Yamasaki Lab Plant Photo Gallery - Asian plant database with over 1200 images

ITALIC - Information System on Italian Lichens - database featuring over 2100 images of 1400 species of Italian lichens

World of Dermatophytes: A Pictorial - the fungus among us

Botanical Image Database, University of Basel - plants, vegetation and pollinator images

Forestry Images - forest plants, insects, silviculture, invasive organisms, natural scenes

CSU Stanislaus Botany Image Collection - 500 images of floral and microscope images for instructional use

Plant Biology Images - photomicrographic and macrographic images of microscopic images

Plants of Western Washington Collection - Model for MSIE-based digital image collections

Protist Image Data - cell structure, life history, classification and nomenclature of algae and other protists

Michigan Wildflowers 2000 - excellent digital image site for Michigan wildflowers

Les Dunes Atlantiques (The Atlantic Dunes) - view of Atlantic and Mediterranean dunes with many dune floral images

Plants of the Northwoods - images and descriptions of trees, shrubs, herbs, fern allies, mosses, lichens & liverworts

Photography of Southern New Jersey - images and virtual tour of New Jersey Pine Barrens, shores and the Delaware River & Bay

FAO Digital Image Site - images of crop & non-crop plants and agricultural practices

Plant Image Gallery - over 2000 images from Europe, Costa Rica and Galapagos Islands

Wildflowers of British Columbia - images, habitat, habit and fascinating facts

Steve's Photos - digital flower and plant images with reproductive organs well displayed

Missouri Wildflower Guide - Midwest US floral guide

Desert USA Flora - images and data on common arid plants of North America

Flora Danica Online - collection of over 3000 ancient plant images

Carrefour BIODIDAC - collection of images for teaching

Horticopia - some plant information and images

Gymnosperm Database - taxonomy, ethnobotany, images, age and large specimens for numerous species

El Desierto Florido - South American Atacama desert floral images

Noble Foundation Plant Image Site - prairie picture gallery

A Tenerife Photo-Essay - Photo-essay and botanical and local information about plants of the Canary Islands.

Floraguide - links, forum, searcher site, photographs

Spectacular Diversity of New Zealand Plants - introductory biodiversity site

Zen's WNC Nature Notebook - excellent Appalachian wildflower site with plant & fungi descriptions & flowering times

On the Prairie: Prairie Resources and Games - a game, photo gallery, distribution and species of this ecosystem

WA Native Plant Page - Western Australian endemic plant images

ARS Image Gallery - image library of plants, crops, fruits, vegetables, research, insects

Virtual Foliage Home Page - thousands of images on many topics at University of Wisconsin

Plant Biology Images - Plant biology image gallery, labelled for home study.

John Kunkel Small Photo Collection -Photographs of botanist John Kunkel Small's early twentieth century Florida expeditions.

Biology 211: Flowering Plant Taxonomy - Photographically illustrated introduction to flowering plant taxonomy

Plant Biology at OSU Lima - Slide collection for teaching Plant Biology 101.

Botanical Society of America Online Image Collection - instructional images of anatomy, biogeography, ecology, palynology, and other topics

Stokes Tropicals - online plant catalog with plant images and information

Tropical Fruits - pictorial site covering mangos, coffee, bananas & much more

Photomicrographs of Phytoplankton at the Clemson University Aquaculture Facility - Photomicrographs of some of the major phytoplankton.

Wildflower Nirvana - Close up images of various wildflowers and their floral parts.

Aquaculture Facility Algae Guide - photomicrographs of freshwater algae

Wildflower Nirvana - excellent photographs

Smallest Page on the Web - desmid and diatom microscopy site

Big Bend National Park - virtual tour

Cryptogams in Depth - images of fungi, bryophytes, lichens and slime molds

World of Science: Mitosis - overview of nuclear and cell division

Botanic Garden of Smith College - model site worth emulating

Microscopy: The Tree Collection - microscopic wood sections and information

Costa Rican Rain Forest Ecology Field Trip - slide show of tropical rainforest

The Tallest, Biggest and Oldest Trees - slide show for teaching

Joe Armstrong's Course Sites - economic botany photo essays on cassava, coir, paper, rubber

The Charms of Duckweed - everything you wanted to know about duckweed, including classroom exercises for K-12 or college

Cornell Plantations - Living Plant Collections at Cornell University

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Greenhouses - Living plant collections at the University of Connecticut.

Brasilian Orchids - photographs, breeding, floral anatomy

Galleria Carnivora - carnivorous plants

Cal's Plant of the Week - photographs, plant propagation

Pennsylvania Flora Project - illustrated plant database

Gymnosperms of Australia and New Zealand - cycads, conifers, taxads with maps, drawings, photos

Album of the Plants of Israel - photographs

The Cycad Society - dedicated to among the oldest living gymnosperms

Albion College Vascular Plant Image Gallery - photographs, subdivision and family descriptions

School Resources from Microscopy-UK - Slides for Mammal and Plant Biology

Floral Radiographs: The Secret Garden - x-rays of common flowers

Orchids of Indonesia - photographs, map, biogeography

Color Landform Atlas of the United States - good tools for biogeography, satellite, county maps, links

Seagrass - taxonomy, distribution, references and large collection of images

Boyce Thompson Southwestern Arboretum - plant care, gardens, deserts and legume site with photographic images

Florida Wildflower Showcase - Nice photo site with hundreds of pictures, including some pollinators

Scientific information on Chile Peppers - Photos, capsaicinoid chemistry and uses of hot peppers (genus Capsicum)

Vascular Plant Families Photographic site (University of Hawaii) - over 225 families represented

• Related sites:
  • University of Hawaii Campus Plants - over 400 images
  • Hawaiian Native Plants - all endemics
  • Hawaiian Silversword Alliance - many representatives of this interesting Hawaiian endemic

Picture It: Great graphics for busy biology teachers - some of the best graphic sites for plants, molecules, ecology, genetics and biology

University of Kansas Image Archive - searchable database of ~370 images of plants and animals

Fungi Photos - Hobbist's JPEGs of Welsh fungi

Weed Images - New Jersey Agricultural Weed Gallery

Missouri Botanical Garden - Research, education, images, virtual tours, floras, databases

Dendrology Page (FNR 225) - Identify twigs and shrubs, dictionary

Fun with Lichens - Database, images and species synoptic key

Plant Virus Site - Images of many major plant viruses in the TEM

Tree World - Nice elementary tree site

Wildflowers of Alabama - Photos, nice write-ups on selected genera

Flowerbase Image Database - About 7,000 color photos (multilingual Dutch site)

Lotus in Japan - Pictorial Lotus site

Plants of the New Jersey Pinelands (Pine Barrens) - virtual tour and photo site

Oklahoma Wildflowers - 150 nice digital images

Indigenous Trees of Gauteng - Tree images of a high plateau in South Africa

Society for Growing Australian Plants - Indigenous plants

Wayne's Word - Natural history & plant trivia

Trees of the Pacific Northwest

BIODIDAC Picture Resources - Pictures of many groups for general botany, including fungi and algae

Orchids of Wisconsin - An Interactive Flora

Henriette's Herbal Homepage - Angiosperms (usually) from Finland, Berlin and Kew

Michael R. Martin's Phytoplankton Images Library - Best site for freshwater algae micrographs

Basic Botany images - Plant anatomy micrographs & a few algae

Flora of Europe - Photos, family and genus descriptions

Protist Image Database - A handful of algal micrographs (representative of phyla)

Aquatic Plants - Mainly angiosperms

Australian National Botanic Gardens Biodiversity Server - Mainly angiosperms, some gymnos, ferns

Smithsonian Catalog of Botanical Illustrations - A few families so far

Vascular Plants Image Gallery - Broad collection of angiosperms

Wisconsin Slide Collection - Broad collection of angiosperms, gymnosperms, ferns, microscopy views also

Wildflowers

This service is organized by Scott Russell through the Department of Botany and Microbiology of the University of Oklahoma. If you have any comments for the improvement this page or nominations for links, please contact me by email (srussell@ou.edu).